UCL News

Rich and poor
children continue to go to different schools in many countries despite government
efforts to encourage them to learn together and reduce the achievement gap,
according to new research from UCL.

The
first drug targeting the cause of Huntington’s disease was safe and
well-tolerated in its first human trial led by UCL scientists. It successfully lowered the level of
the harmful huntingtin protein in the nervous system.

Social stress
factors such as loneliness and being unemployed, in addition to conventional
risks such as smoking and high blood pressure, are associated with higher risks
of developing heart disease, according to a new UCL-led study.

A UCL-led interdisciplinary research consortium, i-sense 'IRC Next Steps', has been allocated more than £3.8m in government funding for pioneering
developments of agile early warning sensing systems for infectious disease and
antimicrobial resistance.

Over 100
pupils were this week praised by Education Secretary Justine Greening and Schools
Standards Minister Nick Gibb on their high levels of achievements studying
under the Mandarin Excellence Programme.

Higher educational attainment is associated with a “significantly lower” chance of people suffering Alzheimer’s, according to the biggest genetic study into the potential causes of the disease reported today in the BMJ.

Two giant galaxies seen when the universe was only
780 million years old, or about 5% of its current age, have been identified by
an international team involving UCL scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).